NOKIA I Praise Thee Again

(Of course the phone the geezer in the photo isn’t talking on a Nokia while… resting? but it’s definitely some kind of phone.)

But Nokia: Yesterday a guy driving through Pui O gave me a lift – in the taxi he was a passenger in! I noticed he had a Samsung that was just a phone. There was no camera, no valet service, No app, no bap, no big-screen TV, no table legs that would turn it into an ironing board and no umbrella.

I showed him my Nokia from 2006 and he was jealous. Jealous! Hear that, all you people who have been calling me Luddite and asking if I cooked food on an open fire which I start by rubbing two sticks together? As much as I’d actually love to have the very useful skill of being able to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together, I don’t think you need an ever-larger TV-like object in my handbag, trackable 24 hours a day, to live in the modern world.

Two weeks ago, I dropped my Nokia into the toilet in mid-flush. Yes, accidentally! It was in my pocket. If it had been an iPhone it would have meant instant graveyard. Me, I calmly took the phone apart and put it in a container of rice. The next day it worked fine… but I couldn’t get a signal. Oh no, was old Nok pretending to be an iPhone?
I had to remove the cover from my daily, Hong Kong Nokia and put it on the body of my mainland Nokia, resigning myself to buying a new phone for mainland use.

A few days later I actually went to the mainland and now the mainland Nokia worked fine. It had only needed some time to get over the shock of the swirling depths. Nokia wins again! Unfortunately I had already bought a new one. But I hope I’ll never have to use it. It has a phone.

手提 (sau tai – handheld [mobile])
廁所 (chi so – toilet)
火 (fo – fire, flame)
大陸 (daai luk – Mainland)